Bump on 3yo head not gone down after a month

[lynniep]

I'm not massively worried about this otherwise I would have taken him to GP already. But I do wonder if we should go now or wait a bit longer.

He banged his forehead really hard about a month ago on his train table, and it came up like a bruised egg. This or similar incidents have happened quite a few times to him. He screams a bit. We ice pack it. Give him chocolate. Then he forgets about it. (kids are great arent they - I'd be whingeing for days if I whacked my head that hard) And has no other symptoms following on from accident so we forget about it too.

This time though he still has a hard lump under the skin, although the bruising has gone. He wont tell me if its tender to the touch, and he's prone to telling fibs at the moment anyway so its hard to know if its bothering him, but he's not showing any signs that it might be.

I will take him to GP I think, I'm just wonder if they might tell me to go away and come back in another month, so should I wait longer. Anyone had the same thing?

bump :)

No experience as a parent, but when I was 4 I bumped my head (fell over on wet cobbles chasing a frog!) and ended up missing my first day of primary school having the bump removed.

I would go to the GP- at the least they will put your mind at rest.

I would take him to the doctor, so when they say "bring him back in a month" its a month from now. If you leave it another month, they'll still say "bring him back in a month", because they do that a lot.

FWIW I'm pretty sure I can still feel a bump at the side of my head from when I got hit by a hockey stick as a child, but it's never caused any problem.

thanks will see if they'll see him tommorrow:)